I have a sub to dashlane that came with ten additional subs and despite trying to literally give them away to family and friends and you’d think I was trying to pull teeth.

Lmao are you out here saying we should essentially smear people for thought crimes?

“We need to recapture the Apple market share!”

“Got it boss, we’ll make it stupid.”

The federalist papers very much show they were aware of that threat.

I don’t know that I’d call them idealistic. They were landed nobles who didn’t want to pay the increased taxes levied on them. Which in turn were to pay for the war their government had fought on their behalf to protect them from the native people whose land they had stolen. By exterminating those native people.

Some asshole had the idea to water a seed and now I have to pay taxes. Fuck that guy.

24hr clock supremacy

This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs

My parents live in butt fuck nowhere and are in a fiber co-op paying like $70/month for unlimited 1gbps up/down.

Meanwhile I live in the (extremely left) Capitol City of my state and pay Comcast $165/month for like 175mbps capped at 1TB, with some absurd overage fee like $10/5GB over until I hit $100 over and then it’s “unlimited” but seems throttled.

Give it time, forced advertising is inevitable.

Just give me my porn, you fucks

When I was a child I envisioned fully automated luxury communism driven by robots and AI.

Realizing that wouldn’t happen for the dumbest possible reasons as a teen/young adult was immeasurably disappointing

I don’t think that’s what happened, with Twitter at least.

Elon pissed off the wrong people at the SEC and FTC playing stupid pump and dump games with stocks by using Twitter and his absurdly undeserved reputation as an unconventional super genius with his mega group of followers.

One of the biggest of these, was pumping and then dumping twitter stock by alleging that he’d buy the company. And the people he’d pissed off in government basically saw their opportunity to fuck him by literally forcing him to buy it at his stupidly overpriced valuation - that’s why he played all sorts of dumb games dragging out the purchase and trying to get out of it.

And so now he’s stuck with an unprofitable company he didn’t want. I’m pretty sure he’s running it into the ground on purpose so he’ll be able to carry that loss balance forward eternally, using it to get out of paying taxes by writing off the loss.

Anything you can share?

I get why some limits are necessary, a company doesn’t want a Microsoft Tae repeat…but after Chat GPT was made available to the public, the rapid addition of a whole range of guardrails made it nearly immediately unusable.

You ask it about anything which is controversial in the slightest regard and it shuts down, which for me at least, removes any interest in using it.

Ah that wasn’t my interpretation, I was just sort of “yes, and-ing” your comment

An example of a thing which has been tried so many times, but which ultimately only increases complexity, expense, and rate of failure for very little gain.

“Ah yes, let us take one of the most finicky vehicular systems outside of the engine itself and make it literally twice as complex!”

And in return you get… slightly reduced turning radius.

Sometimes the thought occurs to me that the only thing standing between me and being absurdly rich by way of saying reprehensible shit on a YouTube channel, is my inconvenient conscience